Casual Dining Restaurants

Buen Idea

Some Value: Texas Roadhouse Will Take Those Benningan’s and Steak and Ale Gift Cards

Best Galleria Alternative

Highland Village

Dining by Demographic

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse serves up excellent renditions of the nation's most average food and wine preferences

On the Chang Gang

Fleming's Prime Steakhouse serves up excellent renditions of the nation's most average food and wine preferences

Capital Idea

Is one more palace of red meat one too many? If it's the Capital Grille, the answer is no.

Best Hunk o' Meat

Capital Grille

Best Chinese Restaurant

Chinese Café

Resolution Relief

California Pizza Kitchen

TRIPLE TREAT TORTILLAS

California Pizza Kitchen

Past Its Prime

Taste of Texas Steakhouse takes you on a nostalgia trip to the salad bar.

Cooked Book

The real chefs' surprise is who made it -- or didn't -- into Culinary Capital

Best Steak House

The real chefs' surprise is who made it -- or didn't -- into Culinary Capital

Best Secret

The real chefs' surprise is who made it -- or didn't -- into Culinary Capital

Dry-Aged Discrimination

What grade of beef are the steaks at The Capital Grille?

Best Mall Alternative

Kim Hung Mall

Best Atmosphere

Vic & Anthony's Steakhouse

Best Expense-Account Restaurant

Capital Grille

The Downtown Aquarium

Open daily

Steak House Shuffle

Vallone's takes a break just in time to give Fleming's a shot

Chain for Fools

Houston versus Dallas: We're family-run; they're chained up.

Beef: It's Still What's for Dinner

Speaking off the toque: Tony Ruppe

Stirred and Shaken

Champps Americana's Manhattan

Stirred and Shaken

P.F. Chang's mai tai

Nothing Small About It

The expansive Maggiano's Little Italy serves portions to match

Food Fight: We Aren't Fox News

That's right. No bias here, folks. After weeks of insinuation that we're somehow prejudiced against Establishment A or in cahoots with Restaurant B, we've decided to record the selection process for the weekly Food Fight for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy the strongly non-biased, highly scientific spe ... More >>

New Bar Menu at The Capital Grille

​With more than forty locations across the country, The Capital Grille is a fine-dining locale catering predominantly to a well dressed, well mannered business crowd. Houston's Galleria location fills up nightly with pretty people stopping by after work for a drink or a salad or a steak. Lest ... More >>

Top 5: Appetizers

Vietnamese egg rolls from Hollywood.​Which places start your meal off just right? Find out, as we take a look at some of the best appetizers Houston has to offer. 5. Pappasito's Matador Nachos Unless you're a complete fat ass, I'd highly recommend splitting these between at least two, proba ... More >>

Comments of the Day

​Could it be that patronizing The Olive Garden is worse than putting beans in your chili? After Kevin Shalin named the chain's lasagna fritta as his top appetizer in town, there was a bit of a riot in the comments. This one from, er, olive garden!?!?!, is a good example: OLIVE GARDEN?? Who.. ... More >>

Comment of the Day

​Joanna O'Leary had a delicious Italian meal at Fratelli's and decided that the restaurant was worth driving outside the loop for. Which gave commenter Laurie pause: Heaven forbid! Outside the Loop! Joanna get over it. It is all of 5 min outside the Loop. A majority of Houston lives outside ... More >>

Off the Wall: Capital Grille Delivers The Big O with Lobster Mac & Cheese

​ ...Outstanding, that is! What were you thinking? I'm pretty sure I'm writing this article from the afterlife because I have died and gone to heaven. Thank you to EOW reader Jeff for chiming in on last week's top five dressed-up macaroni & cheeses and pointing me in the direction of Capital ... More >>

Texas Roadhouse Discriminates Against Old People, Feds Say

No oldies allowed, feds claim​There's not a lot that's authentically Texas about the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain -- it's based in Massachusetts, after all -- but there are 52 locations here in the state, including a handful in the Houston area. We think we've eaten there once, but have f ... More >>

A Cult Hit: The Gingerbread Martini at Outback Steakhouse

Troy Fields​Here at the Houston Press, we keep an eye on which stories are the most popular, and sometimes we notice interesting oddities. One is a post on the Gingerbread Martini at Outback Steakhouse, written in 2007 by our drinks columnist at the time, Debbylou Mountjoy. Apparently this mar ... More >>